New Morning Consult Poll: Voters Trust Paper Ballots More Than Other Means of Voting

Morning Consult:

After issues with a vote tabulation mobile app delayed the results of the Iowa caucuses, voters are more likely to trust in analog voting methods than ballot systems that rely heavily on technology, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico survey.

Among a sample of 1,996 registered voters, 71 percent said they were at least somewhat confident in the more traditional form of voting — electronic voting machines that provide paper receipts — to count their ballots accurately, compared to 22 percent who said the same about those cast through mobile apps. Thirty-seven percent said they had no confidence at all in mobile app voting, the highest share of the methods surveyed.

The survey, which was conducted Feb. 7-9, has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.

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